Film Scriptwriting course underway in Dharamsala
Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 6:15 p.m
| Niko Von Glasgow, noted Ger  man film director, producer and scriptwriter,speaks during the film scripting course (Photo:Sangjey Kep) |
Dharamshala: The first-ever
seminar on film scriptwriting for aspiring Tibetan film writers is
currently underway at the Lhakpa Tsering memorial hall of the
Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR), in
Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala.
The five-day scriptwriting course, which began on 11 February,
was inaugurated by Kalon Kesang Y Takla, Kalon for the Department of
Information and International Relations.
The participants learn the essential elements of scriptwriting
process, including, finding a story, discovering and developing
dimensional characters, dialogue, structure, goal and motivation and
examples from different films.
 Participants, including aspiring Tibetan filmmakers, photo-journalists and writers attending the course |
The course is being organized by London-based Tibetan
filmmaker Sam Wangyal of Wild Nomads for the Himalayan Film School in
association with the Audio-Visual section of DIIR.
Mr Niko Von Glasgow, an award winning German film director, producer and scriptwriter, is conducting the course.
The seminar will go on until 19 February.
